hiking in slovenia

4 min read 2022-06-22 22:54:45

Tržič – A Walk Through the Forest to the Forest!

Why ‘Through the Forest to the Forest’ you might ask? The answer is that this Tržič walk goes ‘through’ the forest to the village of Gozd

5 min read 2022-05-25 21:22:37

I could probably almost write an entire book about the various paths that lead to Talež – a vantage point on the Jelovica plateau with magnificent

4 min read 2022-01-14 00:46:21

At last, I’ve found time to sit down and write my first blog of the year 2022! It’s been a funny old winter so far. First a lot of early snow in

1 min read 2021-08-24 21:16:08

I believe that every visitor to Slovenia who wants to get a real sense of the country, rather than just visiting the usual tourist attractions,

1 min read 2021-08-16 20:50:30

On what was – if I remember correctly – my second visit to Radovljica back in 2006, prior to moving here in 2007, I called in at the Radovljica

1 min read 2021-07-22 20:32:08

Due to an ongoing vestibular problem (more on that later), for the past five months I haven’t been able to do the kind of adventurous hikes that

1 min read 2021-06-23 22:54:22

While I can’t be certain whether the claim of the Rosary Bead Trail that it is “the largest natural rosary bead in the world” holds true, it

1 min read 2021-05-04 21:47:35

As our thoughts are slowly beginning to turn to planning holidays, this year – more than ever – it makes sense to choose a destination for your

5 min read 2021-01-11 00:07:28

So, in addition to the ongoing (and boy is it going on…) coronavirus situation, in this part of Slovenia we have already had the highest snowfall

3 min read 2020-12-02 00:25:45

As you might expect, the festive season is going to be somewhat different this year in Radovljica, and, in fact, in Slovenia as a whole. Am I rocking

4 min read 2020-10-23 20:34:52

So, having done so well in the first round of COVID-19, unfortunately Slovenia is faring much less well second time around. We are now back to a

5 min read 2020-09-07 21:18:54

Following a themed hiking trail is a great way to discover more of a place, whether its history, culture, and/or natural features. In the

4 min read 2020-08-31 20:20:03

Isn’t is just great when you go somewhere not expecting much, only to find it’s so much more than you imagined? That was exactly the case when I

3 min read 2020-08-13 00:09:40

The Juliana long-distance hiking trail covers a total of 270 kilometres in 16 stages, one of which runs through the Radol’ca area. Though marketed

4 min read 2020-08-10 23:33:38

Jelendol is a small village located at the far end of the Dovžan gorge in Tržič. Although it takes a bit of an effort to reach the village, and